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Black Flag
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2229
Black Flag Album Rankings
1
If punk rock was seen as the kind of music which gave the finger to society, then Black Flag had to be the group which gave the finger not only to society, but to punk rock's forefathers.
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2
Wasted...Againis a posthumous release that is an essential career summation. For those hearing the ear-searing sounds of early-'80s SoCal hardcore punk for the first time,Wasted...
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3
Hot on the heels of the live record cameLoose NutandIn My Head, which showed significant improvement overMy WarandSlip It In.
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4
WhenEverything Went Blackwas first released in 1983, Black Flag was in the middle of a backbreaking legal dispute with Unicorn Records.
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5
Slip It InfollowedMy Waralmost immediately, and while a bit better (fewer mega-volume angst drones), the band still wanders a bit, experimenting with expanding the breadth of hardcore into a newer har
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6
The best collection of pre-Henry Rollins-era Black Flag.
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7
After a rancorous three-year legal battle with their label Unicorn, which prevented them from releasing any new material, Black Flag binged in the mid-'80s, releasing a flurry of records that had eve
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8
Laying down the groundwork for what would become one of the most visceral bands of all time, Nervous Breakdown was the first release from Los Angeles' Black Flag.
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9
When the four-song vinyl EP Jealous Again came out in 1980, Black Flag had yet to provide a full-length LP or hire Henry Rollins as its vocalist.
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10
Another pre-Damaged EP release, Six Pack is just intense as Nervous Breakdown or Jealous Again.
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11
A three-song EP featuring Black Flag's satirical party anthem "TV Party." The other tracks are good, but this is a release for collectors or serious fans only.
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12
A sure sign that the Flag is falling apart, this album features a side of Rollins spoken word and a side of Rollins-less instrumentals.
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13
Keeping up with their furious pace came Live '84, a cassette-only release of a standard (for them anyway) Black Flag gig.
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14
One of three LPs released by Black Flag in 1985, Loose Nut suffers from its creators' rampant profligacy.
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17
This SST EP captures Black Flag in three intense live moments. Henry Rollins sounds enraged, and the band teeters constantly on the verge of musical collapse.
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19
This four-song EP was released three years after the breakup of Black Flag.
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